From: Official Announcement
Date: April 1, 2008 4:18:30 PM CDT
To: OFFICIAL_FACULTY@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU
Subject: [OFFICIAL] Richard J Daley Urban Forum
Reply-To: sstillwa@uic.edu
Dear UIC Students, Faculty and Staff,
I invite you to attend the Richard J. Daley Urban Forum on Tuesday, April 29, from 9:00 a.m.  3:30 p.m. at the UIC Forum on South Campus, 725 W. Roosevelt Rd.
In 2008, for the first time in human history, half the people on earth will live in cities, and mass urbanization will continue unabated for decades to come. While the most serious afflictions facing humanity will be found in cities, cities also will be where we find the creativity and resources to address and transcend these challenges.
What are the social and economic effects of this mass urbanization? How can cities best manage social upheaval, poverty, environmental degradation or other challenges they may face? At the same time, how might this critical mass of people living in cities be a catalyst for new forms of science, industry, arts and culture?
The fourth annual Richard J. Daley Urban Forum at UIC will bring together mayors and scholars from around the globe to assess the different ways in which cities experience this new urbanization. Mayors from cities in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Jordan,
Morocco, Lithuania, the United States and other countries will approach urbanization not as a crisis, but as an opportunity. They will assess possible solutions that arise from government action, social entrepreneurship and public-private partnerships. They will examine cities as wellsprings of innovation, and discuss how cooperation among cities can lead to novel and effective solutions.
As always, UIC students, faculty and staff will receive complimentary admission, but registration is required at www.RJDUrbanforum.uic.edu.
Sincerely,
Clark Hulse
Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate College
From: Official Announcement
Date: April 2, 2008 4:39:50 PM CDT
To: OFFICIAL_FACULTY@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU
Subject: [OFFICIAL] Dean candidate visits, CUPPA
Reply-To: jonesk@uic.edu
TO: Faculty, Staff and Students
FROM: R. Michael Tanner
Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
RE: Campus Interviews for Dean of CUPPA
In November 2007, a search committee was charged with conducting a national search to identify candidates for Dean of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs. The search committee, with the support of the college and campus community, has identified three outstanding finalists who will interview on campus in the coming weeks. I am pleased to announce the following finalists, along with the dates of their visits to UIC:
Frances S. Berry, PhD  April 28  April 29, 2008
Frank Sherwood Professor of Public Administration
Director, Askew School of Public Administration and Policy
Florida State University
Michael Pagano, PhD  April 24  April 25, 2008
Interim Dean, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
Professor of Public Administration
University of Illinois at Chicago
Gregory Squires, PhD  April 8 - April 9, 2008
Chair and Professor
Department of Sociology
George Washington University
I am grateful to the members of the search committee, chaired by Clark Hulse, Vice Provost for Graduate and Continuing Studies and Dean of the Graduate College, for their excellent work in identifying these candidates.
I encourage you to meet the candidates at forums scheduled during their visits to campus, and to send your comments to me using the evaluation forms that will be provided. Your advice will be essential to me as I select the next Dean.
The finalists' curricula vitae will soon be available on the search Web site at http://www.uic.edu/depts/oaa/search. Candidate evaluation forms and the dates, times and locations of the candidate forums will be added to the website by the end of next week.
If you have any questions about the search or campus interviews, please contact Dawn Barnett (dbarn97@uic.edu or 312/355-2414) or Kathy Jones (jonesk@uic.edu or 312/355-2817).
From: Official Announcement
Date: April 7, 2008 9:16:39 AM CDT
To: OFFICIAL_FACULTY@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU
Subject: [OFFICIAL] Campus Interviews for Dean of College of Engineering
Reply-To: dbarn97@uic.edu
TO: Faculty, Staff, and Students
FROM: R. Michael Tanner
Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
RE: Campus Interviews for Dean of the College of Engineering
In November 2007, a search committee was charged with conducting a national search to identify candidates for Dean of the College of Engineering. The search committee, with the support of the college and campus community, has identified four outstanding finalists who will interview on campus in the upcoming weeks. I am pleased to announce the following finalists, along with the dates of their visits to UIC:
A. Jeffrey Giacomin, PhD - April 29-30
Chair, Rheology Research Center
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
The University of Wisconsin - Madison
Ravishankar K. Iyer, PhD - May 1-2
George and Ann Fisher Distinguished Professor
Director, Coordinated Science Laboratory
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Peter Nelson, PhD - April 16-17
Interim Dean and Professor
College of Engineering
University of Illinois at Chicago
Mark Spong, PhD - April 14-15
Donald Biggar Willett Professor
College of Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
I am grateful to the members of the search committee, chaired by Stefanie Lenway, Dean of the Business College of Business Administration, for their excellent work in identifying these candidates.
I encourage you to meet the candidates at forums scheduled during their visits to campus, and to send your comments to me using the evaluation forms that will be provided. Your advice will be essential to me as I select the next Dean.
The finalists' curricula vitae will soon be available on the search Web site at http://www.uic.edu/depts/oaa/search. Candidate evaluation forms and dates, times and locations of the candidate forums and will be added to the website by the end of next week.
If you have any questions about the search or campus interviews, please contact Dawn Barnett (dbarn97@uic.edu or 312/355-2414) or Kathy Jones (jonesk@uic.edu or 312/355-2817).
From: Official Announcement
Date: April 9, 2008 5:01:58 PM CDT
To: OFFICIAL_FACULTY@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU
Subject: [OFFICIAL] Evacuation drill
Reply-To: mnava@uic.edu
On Saturday, April 12, the Environmental Health and Safety Office will be conducting an evacuation drill of the Student Recreation Facility or SRF (630 building, 737 S. Halsted St.) at 10:00 A.M.
At the conclusion of the drill the building will re-open for regular activity.
Marilyn Hau
Director of Environmental Health and Safety
From: Official Announcement
Date: April 11, 2008 4:52:09 PM CDT
To: OFFICIAL_FACULTY@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU
Subject: [OFFICIAL] Message from the Chancellor
Reply-To: donnaj@uic.edu
Dear Colleagues,
As we approach the end of the 2007-2008 academic year, I am proud to share these highlights from around the campus.
Two UIC professors have been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships. Leon Fink, distinguished professor of history, and Ben Russell, visiting assistant professor for moving image arts in the School of Art and Design, were among 190 artists, scholars, and scientists chosen from nearly 2,600 applicants. Professor Fink, a highly regarded, influential scholar of U.S. labor, will use his fellowship for a project titled "Sweatshops at Sea: Regulating Labor in the Atlantic World, 1800-2000." Professor Russell, a photographer, curator and filmmaker, will use his fellowship to make a feature-length experimental 16mm film in Suriname, South America, tracing a familys journey from the capital to a remote rain forest village. Congratulations to both on this well-deserved, extremely prestigious honor.
Alina-Carmen Cojocaru, assistant professor of mathematics, statistics and computer science, has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER award to aid her study of elliptic curves, fundamental objects in the theory of numbers. Funding for Professor Cojocaru's award is expected to total $400,000 over five years. NSFs Faculty Early CAREER Development award, its most prestigious, cites junior faculty members in science and engineering who demonstrate an outstanding commitment to research and teaching.
Peter Doran, associate professor of earth and environmental sciences, has been selected as one of 19 environmental researchers from North America to receive a 2008 Leopold Leadership Fellowship from the Stanford University-based Woods Institute for the Environment. The 10-year-old program selects mid-career academic environmental scientists who receive two weeks of intensive communication and leadership training to promote the delivery of scientific information more effectively to journalists, policy makers, business leaders and the public. Professor Doran has also been nominated by former Apollo astronaut Harrison Schmidt to become a member of the NASA Advisory Council Science Committee's planetary protection subcommittee.
A team of UIC MBA students won the NASA Earth/Space Life Science Innovation Award at the 2008 Rice Business Plan Competition in Houston. HeartSounds, Inc., founded by Liautaud Graduate School of Business students Dr. Amir Bastawrous, Michael McCoy and Matthew Norris, won the $20,000 award, given for the first time this year, for having the "best business plan that presents a life sciences technology which has application to both the NASA space life science program and to Earth-based activities." HeartSounds' business proposal is for acoustic-based, non-invasive medical devices for diagnostic and telemetric applications. The UIC team also won sixth place overall ($3,000) for a total prize of $23,000.
John D'Emilio, professor in the departments of History, and Gender and Womens Studies, was honored by the Gerber/Hart Library with a 25th anniversary celebration of his book "Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970." DEmilios research offered the first extensive analysis of U.S. homophile history and is widely considered a defining work in the field of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender studies.
UIC received a three-year, $2.25 million grant from the Grand Victoria Foundation to create a network that will serve to help Illinois nonprofits and small municipalities access federal grants and build partnerships for community improvement. Illinois ResourceNet, based in the UIC Great Cities Institute, will provide a Web site, Web-based seminars, conferences, workshops, a resource center, and technical assistance.
Roger Weissberg, professor of psychology and education and president of the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL), has been named one of the Daring Dozen for 2008 by Edutopia, the George Lucas Educational Foundation. The list recognizes people who are reshaping the future of education.
Our City Design Center has produced an electronic publication illustrating ideas for green development in Garfield Park as a case study for use by Chicago neighborhoods and individuals. "Green Schemes: Sustainable Urbanism for Garfield Park" presents 80 concepts such as filtration gardens, narrowed roadways, and an elevated bikeway adjacent to the Green Line tracks.
An exercise and health education program for seniors with arthritis was chosen for one of six awards presented by the Healthcare and Aging Network in Washington, DC. "Fit and Strong!" was developed by Sue Hughes, professor of community health sciences and co-director of the Center for Research on Health and Aging in the School of Public Health.
UIC will send 11 individual qualifiers to the 2008 NCAA National Collegiate Men's Gymnastics Championships later this month at Stanford. Representing UIC will be Kevin Baune, Jeffrey Bill, Alex Kadar, Nikolai Korepanov, Anthony May, David Mohr, Nick Persino, Ben Sinor, Bobby Solomon, Andrew Stover, and ECAC Rookie of the Year Neal Thompson. Congratulations to all of these talented student-athletes.
Finally, I invite you to join me April 29 for the annual Richard J. Daley Urban Forum, to be held this year at the new UIC Forum on South Campus. This year, for the first time in human history, more than half of the people on earth will live in cities, according to Unleashing the Potential of Urban Growth, the landmark 2007 report of the United Nations Population Fund. The Forum will feature a special contingent of municipal leaders from around the world including Pakistan, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the United States. Also participating are leading scholars and experts in the field of urbanization and population growth. Panelists will weigh the social and economic effects of this mass urbanization. As always, UIC faculty, staff and students receive complimentary admission but registration is required; for more information, please visit www.rjdurbanforum.uic.edu.
Sincerely,
Eric A. Gislason
Interim Chancellor
From: Urgent Official Announcement
Date: April 12, 2008 12:49:18 PM CDT
To: URGENT_FACULTY@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU
Subject: [URGENT] CRIME ALERT
Reply-To: cappitel@uic.edu
UIC Police report an incident of criminal sexual abuse early Saturday morning, April 12. A female student was walking in the 1300 block of South Halsted Street when she was approached from behind by a man. The offender grabbed the victim and pulled her to an isolated area, where he attempted to unbutton her pants. The victim broke free and fled to Stukel Towers, where she contacted UIC Police. A search for the offender by UIC Police proved negative. The victim was treated at the UIC Medical Center.
The offender is described as a white male, 20-23 years old, 6-1, 130-150 pounds, with short blondish hair and clean-shaven. Anyone with information is asked to contact UIC Police at (312) 996-2830. The emergency number for UIC Police is (312) 355-5555.